Books I've Written or Edited:





Essays I've Written:

  • "A Hospital is a Village of Immense Suffering," San Diego Reader, September 17, 1998.

  • "A Quick Fix for Bug 2000", a My Turn Essay in Newsweek Magazine, June 15, 1998.

  • "Bill & Monica & Walt Whitman:" : An Essay in the San Diego Reader, March 12, 1998

  • The Father I Carry With Me

  • "An Essay on Raymond Carver's Fiction"

  • "Com'on Back Poems: Galway Kinnell's Imperfect Thirst in Nancy Tuten, ed., Critical Essays on Galway Kinnell, Northeastern University Press, 1996, pp

  • "Coming Full Circle: John Ashbery's Later Poetry," in Susan Schulz, ed. The Tribe of John, University of Alabama Press, 1994, pp. 38-59. .

  • "Border Voices: An Introduction," California Council for the Humanities Newsletter, Spring 1994, pp. 4-6. .

  • "Speculations: Contemporary American Poetry and Painting," Mosaic, Summer, 1987, pp. 23-36. .

  • "Robert Creeley's Poetry: An Overview," Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, (1987) Vol. 23, pp. 101-108. .

  • "Piece of a Mirror: Robert Creeley's Later Poetry," Robert Creeley's Life and Work, edited by James Wilson, University of Michigan Press, 1987, pp. 335-344. .

  • "Italy and Ezra Pound's Politics," San Jose Studies, Fall, 1986, pp. 29-36. .

  • "Postmodern Poetry and Fiction: The Connective Links," in Postmodern Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide, ed. Larry McCaffery. Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 129-142.

  • "Speaking the Unspeakable: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich," Alaska Quarterly Review, (Winter 1983), pp. 101-113. .

  • "Moloch's Poet: Twenty Five Years of Allen Ginsberg's Poetry," American Poetry Review (Oct.-Nov. 1982), pp. 10-18. .

  • "Burned-up Intensity: The Suicidal Poetry of Sylvia Plath," Mosaic, (Winter 1982), pp. 141-151. .

  • "Edward Dahlberg, A Bibliographic Guide," in A Bibliography of Midwestern Authors, ed. by Charles Nemanic (University of Iowa Press, 1981), pp. .

  • "The Lonesomeness of Words: John Ashbery's A Tennis Court Oath," in Beyond Amazement, New Essays on John Ashbery, ed. by David Lehman, (Cornell University Press, 1980), pp. 150-162. .

  • "The Malatesta Cantos," Mosaic, (Fall 1978), pp. 107-118. .

  • "A Reading of the Pisan Cantos," Modern Poetry Studies, (Spring 1978), pp. 1-17. .

  • "Kindred Muses: American Poetry and Painting," Journal of Aesthetic Education (October 1977), pp. 67-78. .

  • "Concluding an Epic: The Drafts and Fragments of the Cantos," American Literature, Vol. 5, No. 309-26. .

  • "John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara: The Painterly Poets," Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 1976), pp. 436-62. .

  • "Italian Imagery in the Cantos," Pubblicazioni dell' University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 1974, pp. 239-246. .

  • "Make Him a Legend in His Own Time: Writing About Edward Dahlberg," Utah Papers in Language and Literature, I, 1969, pp. 21-32. .

  • "The Early Drama Criticism of William Dunlap," American Literature, March 1968, pp. 9-14. .

  • "Hamilton and the Historians: The Economic Program in Retrospect," Midcontinent American Studies Journal, Spring 1967, pp. 34-43. .

  • "An Interview with Edward Dahlberg," Western Humanities Review, Summer 1966, pp. 249-53. .